Oh, Denis Johnson! His writing is sublime - so many stand-out lines in this short book of short stories. This was his last book before he died in 2017. And so the lines, “It's plain to you that at the time I write this, I'm not dead. But maybe by the time you read it.” were like a punch in the heart.
But, I can't help judging it against Jesus's Son, and Train Dreams, and there was one story in this collection - the second story, I forget its name - that didn't work as well for me. So this is really 4.5 rounded up to 5.